"Dear Fans of LIVE...", A message from TGF Options

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LIVE Dear Fans of Live,

Summer
is upon us and lot's of exciting stuff is happening. Chad, Chad &
Pat (The Gracious Few) are gearing up for a few Summer shows starting
with a FREE show at a SECRET LOCATION this Thursday,
May 27th, in their home town of
YORK PA. Info about the show can be found at www.thegraciousfew.com

Also,
the boy's have 2 other early summer dates the first being in Milwaukee
at Summerfest on June 25th & the 2nd in Los
Angeles on June 29th at The Troubadour. Wanna VIP LA Style? VIP packages for the Troubadour show can
be purchased at http://www.thegraciousfewmerch.com/servlet/StoreFront!

Check out www.thegraciousfew.com where you can hear samples of their new music, sign up for the
mailing list or grab a t shirt from our Official Online Merch Store. Keep checking in for
upcoming announcements about the albums launch and summer tour dates.

Ed's
solo record "Alive" will be
released this summer & the first single Grace will be available June 1st on
iTunes. You can catch him live at one of his many shows this summer, all
the tour dates so far can be found at http://edkowalczyk.com/.

That's it for now
but keep checking in on both musical journeys.

For all the news
that is true, The Gracious Few -
Kevin, Chad, Pat, Chad and Sean

[Bremang]

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this for me is the saddest part of the story..

Now you're talking about Ed ruining Ed. I think this is a interesting subject that brings about many factors and confusion.

I see many people talk about Ed losing his songwriting ability, singing ability, and losing the drive to keep the concerts fresh and energetic. I read about Ed selling coffee, and phone calls, essentially selling out. I read about Ed being the cause of Live's downfall.

I think that Ed is significantly losing vocal strength, songwriting ability, and energy on stage in recent years.


I wouldn't completely blame Ed for selling the coffee and phone calls. There are so many possible reasons to justify selling coffee and phone calls. The industry has changed, Ed doesn't get a steady income now. The band Live has sold tons of merchandise unrelated to their music, which is part of trying to make a profit. Thats cause the second Live signed to Radioactive, they sold out. Tshirts, they sold alot, and it was to their target audience. Now the target is probably people in their 30's and 40's, homebodies. Ed sells coffee, chocolate, and phone calls. Hes making his target audience happy, because those are the ones he can please. George Foreman sells grills, and Ed is putting his image on a product too - coffee. While it is clearly to make money, it doesn't look like that evil a product. It is organic and fair trade, I wouldn't be surprised if it is good, though I don't drink coffee. As for phone calls, I wouldn't be surprised if some of us spent 200 bucks back in 1997 and would think it was worth every penny.

Every band member has gone on side projects and personal capital ventures. Gracey owns a buisness, probably a multi-million dollar one. Taylor has been trying to flip scripts and other bands for a while. Ed doesn't really have other ventures going on right now. Ed is a songwriter in this life. Why shouldn't he try to supplement his income? We don't know his finances, or whether he would have to find another job. The guy is trying to make a buck. He probably has no decent contract, and being a rock star doesn't last forever, hes clearly slipping. Yet he needs to make money for his family. I wonder what Ed wife says, or if shes worried about Live, so long as the children get food on the table and go to school.


And maybe Ed just got tired of doing the same thing for 20 years, while he sees himself growing old and less appreciated. Some of us consider Ed going downhill ever since TC, or TDTH, or 2006...but we all agree the in the last couple years the band was lacking on stage. They still got attention during this time, and were still appreciated by many. The reputation of Ed Kowalczyk was still in good standing around the world.

It wasn't until Chad's blogs that radio stations, and news outlets, started associating Ed with greed. Chad certainly didn't only clear the air, but used the term greed in Ed's name. There is no doubt that he was also pointing the finger. He could have just let it remain private, or coined it an internal disagreement. Gracey let him have it too.


Back to the main point of this thread....THE NEWSLETTER. Sure, the blog posts were a while ago, but we haven't been intimately updated since, and Chads words vs. Ed's words are put to the test of our faith. Chad has SINCE THEN, expressed dismay about Ed having a stolen version of the mailing list. He made it clear to us that he didn't like the idea of Ed on the mailing list, and this was more recent. But in the end, maybe its all fake, or maybe they cooled off, or maybe they are contractually obliged. I'd take fake and contractual obligation over being cooled off, since Chad was against Ed's stolen version of the list.

This post has been edited by Bremang: May 25 2010, 5:50 pm